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Tag Archives: mindfulness
Is Mindfulness Warmed-over Buddhism?
Mindfulness meditation seems everywhere these days. Even the corporate world embraces it, e. g., Google, Facebook, EBay and Twitter. And in medical circles, it’s all the rage, particularly in psychiatry where it increasingly rivals pharmaceutical intervention as a primary therapy … Continue reading
Happiness: What it is and How to Find It
I came across this still proverbial Tibetan saying in my pre-meditation reading the other day that I wanted to share with you: “Seeking happiness outside is like waiting for sunshine in a cave facing north.” In short, our happiness must … Continue reading
Posted in Psychology, Reflections
Tagged Buddhism, contentment, counseling, David Michie, happiness, Hellen Keller, meditation, mindfulness, peace, psychology
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Teach me to measure all my days
Another year, now one of many for me, is about to pass. Life flows incessantly forward. More than ever, I’m thankful for every moment in the present, wanting to indulge, pamper, and exhaust it for its sensory fullness, or like … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Reflections
Tagged contingency, longevity, mindfulness, Poetry, randomlesslness, Stephen Batchkelor
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Leap Frogging
I continue to read Shinzen Young (The Science of Enlightenment), and always with the thrill of discovery. No one, and I mean no one, has opened up the insides of mindfulness meditation more for me. You know you’re keeping good … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Psychology, Reflections
Tagged counseling, meditation, mindfulness, psychology, Shinzen Young, The Science ofEnlightenment
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Live Longer Now
It’s funny how your mind takes vast jumps, transcending time and space, hurling you into the past or thrusting you into the future. It’s happening to me now. I remember sitting in my sixth grade class in Florida, fascinated with … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Lifestyle, Psychology, Reflections, Technology
Tagged Calco, death, immortality, meditation, mindfulness, psychology, Shinzen Young, The Science of Enlightenment, Vector
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My first attempts at meditation
Recently I completed a 28-day online course in Zen meditation from a Buddhist source, not that I’m thinking of becoming a Buddhist, but because I’m drawn to its spirituality, virtually absent in current secular approaches such as the wildly popular … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle
Tagged Anxiety, Buddhism, meditation, mindfulness, Mindfulness-based stress, peace, relaxation, restoration, Zen
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Cultivating Stillness
I am full of early morning, tucked beneath my comforter, stretching my legs, my brain filling its daily bucket of anxieties sufficient for another day’s wrestlings. These several days I’ve laid siege to my citadel of habit, rising in winter’s … Continue reading
Mindfulness and the recovery of compassion, empathy and joy
Nearly always I come upon new reads, not through lists but, unexpectedly, in the marketplace of life. I like it this way–the surprise of it, the joy of discovery, the smack of fate rather than coincidence, like the chance finding … Continue reading
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Tagged Health, meditation, mental-health, mindfulness, psychology
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